Held Within Your Heavy Need

The afternoon stretches out, long and gray, filled with the quiet terror that your need is too heavy for anyone to carry. You watch the people around you, waiting for the moment they realize you are too much work and finally walk away.

But there is a love that does not measure your weight before it stays. The Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom—not because you are light enough to hold, but because you are his.

The light inside you is not a burden to be dropped when the day gets long; it is the very thing that holds you up when your own strength gives out. You do not have to earn your place at the table by being easy to love.

The one who is in you is greater than the fear that says you will be left behind. It is already done.

You are held, not despite your need, but within it.